{"id":351493,"date":"2026-05-22T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351493"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:00:30","slug":"watch-and-hold-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/watch-and-hold-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch and Hold Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. (Revelation 3:3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Word of God is marvelous! Every day, it opens the understanding of His people and teaches them profound truths, which bring fear to the hearts of all who serve Him and who want to keep His Word. These seek to do His will and strive not to err, always examining their desires and thoughts, asking for forgiveness for any mistake made, and watching to be ready for His coming at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. (Revelation 3:3) &nbsp; The Word of God is marvelous! Every day, it opens the understanding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[6126,6223,6224],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women","tag-bible","tag-meditation","tag-the-word-of-god"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351494,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351493\/revisions\/351494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351493"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}